Hope Breakfast Bar is spreading like wildfire — but don’t call it a chain.

Owners Brian and Sarah Ingram prefer it to be known as a “collection of restaurants,” the latest of which will open next year in Woodbury, across the street from Kowalski’s on Radio Drive.

It will be Hope number five, for those who are counting. The original, opened in 2019, is in St. Paul. The two other full-service restaurants are in St. Louis Park and Eagan, and there’s a smaller, counter-service version in Gillette Children’s Hospital in St. Paul.

“Every time we do a Hope, we try to make the design a little different,” Brian Ingram said. “My biggest fear is that anyone will look at this as a chain.”

The restaurant’s tagline is “Believe in Breakfast” and the operation gives 3% of its profits to its nonprofit, Give Hope, which is focused on “helping neighbors in need.”

This Hope will have a giant coffee bar and kitchen on one side of the restaurant. The dining room will seat around 120 and an L-shaped patio off the back will seat another 40.

As with the other newer Hopes, Ingram said he’ll add four new items to the menu, geared toward the lunch guest in Woodbury, since there are a lot of nearby office buildings.

“I think we’ll bring back the shrimp and grits from the original Hope menu, “Ingram said. “We had to take those off because the kitchen is so small in St. Paul.”

The Ingrams, who also own Apostle Supper Club and The Gnome in St. Paul, aren’t done yet, either. Brian Ingram teased two new concepts and another Hope location, all of which are in different stages of being finalized.

“It’s so crazy to think that in 2019 we just had one little Hope,” Ingram said.

Hope Breakfast Bar >> 1930 Donegal Drive, Woodbury; hopebreakfast.com

St. Paul Brewing adds lunch, cocktails

We have several pieces of good news to share from St. Paul Brewing this week: The brewery has started serving lunch, has added a daytime happy hour and is rolling out its first-ever cocktail menu. Lunch is served Tuesday through Friday from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. and includes a variety of sandwiches, salads, shareable sides, and wood-fired pizzas, including $4 slices during those hours. Sandwiches include a walleye po-boy, a giant roast beef sandwich and an Italian sub as well as the brewery’s burger and excellent black bean burger and we are definitely eyeing up the warm kale salad and poutine. The daytime happy hour, which takes place during lunch hours, features pints of beer for just $4. Wine, cider and house-made seltzers are also available, as are the new in-house batched craft cocktails, all made using Tattersall products. In addition, the brewpub announced this week a partnership with Koru Kombucha, which is brewed at St. Paul Brewing, to make a THC-infused kombucha made with citra hop. It’s available in-house or to go.

St. Paul Brewing >> 688 E. Minnehaha Ave., St. Paul; 651-698-1945; stpaulbrewing.com